for too true I am afraid it is, that many Women have become abandoned, and have ſunk to the laſt Degree of Vice by being unable to retrieve the firſt Slip. This will be, I am afraid, always the Caſe while they remain among their former Acquaintance; it was therefore wiſely done by Mr. Allworthy, to remove Jenny to a Place where ſhe might enjoy the Pleaſure of Reputation, after having taſted the ill Conſequences of loſing it.
To this Place therefore, wherever it was, we will wiſh her a good Journey, and for the preſent take leave of her, and of the little Foundling her Child, having Matters of much higher Importance to communicate to the Reader.
CHAP. X.
The Hoſpitality of Allworthy; with a ſhort Sketch of the Characters of two Brothers, a Doctor, and a Captain, who were entertained by that Gentleman.
Neither Mr. Allworthy’s Houſe, nor his Heart, were ſhut againſt any part of Mankind, but they were both more
